Description
Bring “peas and harmony” to the family table with Food Fights!  Knowing what to feed children is one thing.  Getting them to eat is quite another!  In Food Fights, the authors bring together the science of nutrition with the practical insight of parents who have been in your shoes-offering simple solutions for your daily nutritional challenges. Whether you’re feeding an infant, toddler, or young child, Food Fights offers entertaining, reality-based advice on:
• How to pick your battles (and arm yourself accordingly!)
• Dealing with whining, throwing food, and other challenging habits
• TV dinners, fast food, huge portions, and other nutritional minefields
• Mealtime milestones—from baby’s first cereal to letting go of sippy cups
• Eating out, grocery shopping, and travel
• The 5-second rule
• Drinking and dozing, juice, soda pop, and other classic drinking problems
influences from family, friends, and child care providers
• Sick kids, vitamins, body weight, allergies, constipation, spitting up…and so much more!

Level: Intermediate
ISBN-10: 1581102445
ISBN-13: 9781581102444
Format: Paperback, 225 pp
Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
Pub date: 2007

Content
Part I: Introduction
1.    Food for Thought
2.    War and Peace
3.    How to Pick Your Battles
Part II: Starting Out on Solid Ground
4.    Baby Bites: Starting Solid Foods
5.    It’s Not Easy Being Green
6.    Vegetables and the Great French Fry Conspiracy
7.    Ketchup for Small Fries
Part III: Drinking Problems
8.    The Epic Bottle
9.    Drinking and Dozing Don’t Mix
10.  Sippy Cup Syndrome
11.  Milk Matters
12.  Water Works
13.  A Revealing Look at Pop Culture
Part IV: Activities of Daily Eating
14.  Food, Food Everywhere but Not a Bite They’ll Eat
15.  Whining and Dining
16.  Cutting Corners
17.  Food as a Reward
18.  Throwing Food
19.  5-Second Rule
20.  Read All About It!
21.  Brushing Up
Part V: Eating Outside of the House
22.  The Friends and Family Feeding Plan
23.  Grocery Shopping
24.  Child Care Cuisine
25.  TV Dinners
26.  Eating Out With Reservations
27.  Plane and Simple: In-Flight Food Fights
Part VI: Just for the Health of It
28.  Keeping Up With the Curves
29.  A Vitamin a Day
30.  Feeding Through Sick and Slim
31.  Allergies and Intolerances
32.  Constipation Consternation
33.  The Price of Gas
34.  Refluxively Speaking
35.  All Choking Aside
Part VII: In Closing
Index

About the authors
Laura A. Jana, MD, FAAP, is a pediatrician, mother of 3, and associate director of the Boys Town Institute for Child Health Improvement.  Having cofounded The Dr. Spock Company, Dr. Jana now owns and operates an educational child care center called Primrose School of Legacy and is a member of the Luminari Expert Network.  She is a well-recognized parenting expert on Omaha television and radio.

Jennifer Shu, MD, FAAP, is a mother and pediatrician in Atlanta, GA.  She is editor in chief of Baby & Child Health: The Essential Guide From Birth to 11 Years and serves  on the Parents magazine advisory board.  She has chaired the young physicians sections fro both the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Medical Association and has been a featured health expert on CNN, Headline News, and the Discovery Health Channel.

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
3020 Assessment of target groups, populations
4000 Wellness and public health
4030 Dietary guidelines, DRIs, Food Guide Pyramid, food labeling
4160 Adolescence
5070 Pediatrics